Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-02-25
EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
Domestic News

EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
Domestic News
The st. Louis City council has passed I
bill fixing eight hours as a legal dayls worl
for the city employees.
Chicago bank clearings for last week ado
up s4s, 1926, against $s9, 326, sos for thu
corresponding week last year.
Since October 80 to date. Chicago peck
ers have slaughtered 1,6s0,0o9 hogs agains
1884, 900 for the corresponding period 6
year ago.
Much damage was done a Philadelphia
Pa, ON the 18th, by an electrical storm
filing inlets, sewers and cellars with &c
flood of water.
A party of Italian laborers at Ware
Mass, resisted officers endeavoring to make
an arrest, armed with clubs, pistols &c,
and in the struggle the officers fred and
one Italian was killed.
The editor and business manager of a
New Orleans French daily paper fought a
duel on Saturday. Two shots were eX-
changed, but after the manner of French
duels, no one was hurt.
IL IS eApecIeu IudL Cs1l lOI Slo,ooO,ooo q
per cent bonds will soon be issued and that
the entire per cent loan, of which there is
now about $40, 600, OO0, 900 outstanding, will
be entirely extinguished before July1
The sale has been consummated of Look
out mountain, celebrated as the scene of
the Battle Among the Clouds. A company
has been organized to build broad gauge
railroad by July l, and erect a hotel on the
heights
President Cleveland has vetoed two private
pension bills, originating in the Senate,
granting pensions to John D. Fencher and
Rachel Ann Pierpont. AS to the first named
case, the President maintains that the dis
ability for which the pension is asked was
not incurred in the service; and as to the
latter case the President. says that the rec
ords of the pension office show that since
this bill was introduced a pension has been
granted to claimant by the pension Office at
the same rate authorized in the bill.
The remains of Gen. Hazen. late chief sig
nal officer, were on Tuesday transferred
from Oak Hill cemetery to the national
cemetery at Arlington. The re-interment
was strictly of private nature. Rev. DR..
Leonard, of St. Johns church officiated.
The transfer was in accordance with the
wishes of Mrs. Hazen, who thought there
was no more fitting final resting place for
Cell. hdZGu ludu Will tu0 TALK anu 1L1S OIL
the army at the national cemetery at Ar
ington.
Mayor Hewitt, of New York city has
vetoed an ordinance for streets booths
where food may be supplied to the poor at
one cent an article. he says there are
$4,000 persons in the city who depend upon
view such agencies as free soup kitchens
and cheap food booths would in his opinion
increase idleness and poverty. He is also
informed that the charitable organizations
of the city are sufficient to cope with the
existing distress.
Heirs of Mrs. A. T. Stewart have brought
suit to GUST Judge Henry Hilton from his
executorship, charging him with fraud.
The complaint sets out the will and codicil
connected with it, giving Mr.. Hilton a
large slice of the residuary estate after GER
tain requests have been provided for, and
alleges that ''an these portions of said
alleged codicils which purport to devise to
said Henry Hilton in trust an undivided
half of said real estate or to vest in him
any trust were obtained from Cornelia NJ
Stewart by undue influence and fraud"
At New York the business Of the steam
ship and railroad companies on the piers
along the river front has assumed its nor
NAL condition. and freight is being moved
as Systematically as before the big strike.
Many of the old hands have got back to
work, and the Italians who took the places
of the strikers are now accustomed to the
work, and the agents say they are as good
as the old hands, except that they do not
understand the language. The men now
acknowledge they were badly beaten, and
some OF them are severe in their denuncia-
ton of the action of their leaders.
:, President Cleveland vetoed the bill appro
priating $4,000 for the distribution of seeds
in Texas, In the course of his message he
said can find no warrant for such an ap-
preparation in the constitution and do noc
believe that the power and duty of the gen
eral government ought to be extended to
the relief of individual suffering, which is
in no manner properly related to the public
service or benefit. A prevalent tendency to
disregard the limited mission of this power
and duty should, think, be steadfastly re-
sisted to the end that the lesson should be
constantly enforced that though the people
support the government the government
should not support the people.
It is believed at Washington that the
Anti-Mormon bill that has passed Congress
will become law. A dispatch says that
President Cleveland has indeed been in
earnest in the prosecution OF the Mormon
cases as any one, and retains in office gov
ernor who has been more vigorous than any
of his predecessors in endeavoring to re-
press polygamy. The approval of this law
undoubtedly will be the turning point in
the fortunes of Utah. The supporters Of
the bill predict that the result will be that
there will be a large immigration into the
territory next spring, and that from this
time forward the control of affairs there
will rapidly pass from the hands of the cor
ruption hierarchy into the hands of the
Gentiles.
Crimes.
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